Morning Star

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 Jesus is the true Day Star that rises and gives the Light of the knowledge of God in the dark places of our hearts.  His voice gives us true Light in the darkness of ignorance.     When we hear His interpretation of the Scriptures, do we listen to Him or to man who will exalt himself with a competing title (such as morning star…light bringer) trying to usurp the authority of God in the face of His revelation of the Truth?

 

Isaiah 14 shows the king of Babylon exalting himself before being abased.   The title “morning star, son of the morning” appears to be bit of a sarcastic jab to how he thought of himself for he thought to exalt his throne…his rule… above the “stars of God” …which are His messengers of the Truth.    He likened himself to the Supreme (“I will be like the most High”) but he would lose his lofty position.  He demanded that others submit to his authority…his name…rather than the authority of God.

 

Isaiah 14:12-15 KJV

(12)  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

(13)  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

(14)  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

(15)  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

 

We find the pattern repeated by the Pharisees.  

 

The Pharisees also loved to be first among the people and sought to keep many from receiving Jesus.  They loved the chief seats in their assemblies.  They loved the uppermost rooms at feasts.  They wanted to be called “rabbi”…. “master”… “father” by their subjects.   They sought out honor from men rather than giving honor to God or seeking the honor that only comes from God.

 

They did exalt themselves over the people….loving to be first among them…and having the people that they exercised authority over to call themselves by their flattering titles.   They would not let their “prisoners” free to go to the Lord who came to preach deliverance to them.  

 

But as Jesus said,  all who will exalt themselves , will be abased.    The “kings” of the congregation will always exercise authority over their subjects…especially if one comes along in the authority…in the name… of the Lord to preach the Word of Truth.    They will always threaten when they will feel their own positions being threatened and will exercise their authority instead of being servants.

 

Mark 10:42 KJV

(42)  But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

 

Another example:  Diotrephes exalted himself….loving to have the “preeminence”…that is, he loved to be first among men.   He exalted himself in the same way the king of Babylon did.

 

Interestingly, “Diotrephes” means “nourished by Jupiter”.    The name “Jupiter” (the planet which has no light of its own is one of the “morning stars” in the sky along with Venus) means “heavenly father” indicating that Diotrephes loved to be called “father” or another exalted title among his “subjects”.

 

 He was “nourished” by men calling him by a flattering title and having his authority recognized by those “under” him.   His ego was being “nourished” …being elevated…by having men call him by his supreme title as he exercised his authority over them.   

 

 Diotrephes  exalted himself and would not receive the brothers who were sent to preach the Word of Truth to the church.

 

3 John 1:9-10 KJV

(9)  I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

 

He exercised his authority over the church by forbidding others to not receive the brothers and any who did receive them was cast out of the church by him.   But Diotrephes would soon be cast down from his lofty position as the Lord would come in judgment….remembering his evil deeds and evil words.

 

(10)  Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

 

There is only one Father which is in heaven.  There is only one Father that we are to glorify…and not instead glorify men who love to be first among us.   

 

Matthew 23:9 KJV

(9)  And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

 

The “man of sin” …following in the footsteps of the king of Babylon, the Pharisees, Diotrephes….shall also oppose the preaching of the Truth and will exalt himself over all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.  He will exalt himself and will exercise his authority over the church as he will forbid others from receiving the Word of Truth and will cast out any who will.   The “man of sin” shall be many leaders of the churches in this coming time who will behave in like fashion towards the preaching of the Truth.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 KJV

(3)  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

(4)  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

 

They will be as raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame as they will speak evil in their wrath.   The man of sin will reveal himself with his evil mouth speaking and doing evil things .  They will be as “wandering stars”....planets…that rove about in the blackness of darkness….as the wicked shall not understand.

 

Jude 1:13 KJV

(13)  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

 

Daniel 12:10 KJV
(10)  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
 

[questioner2]

Thank you all for your input.  I'm thinking it would be a huge mistake at this point to rule out the book of Revelation as inspired especially since the penalty for doing so is so great according to it.

 

I also asked God to reveal Himself to me at one time and He did.  It was like I was in heaven for about five minutes.  But I am also mentally ill, which is my thorn in the flesh, and sometimes I think things that are way off base without any kind of restraint.  I haven't ruled out blasphemous things as possibilities, and this has been my sin.